Quotes about Desire

It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.

The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.

Spare me the setting of my fate to music.

our Lord satisfied the stomach before satisfying the eye, but the imagination acts in the reverse fashion

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Soul winners are not soul winners because of what they know, but because of Who they know, and how well they know Him, and how much they long for others to know Him.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

A "prospect" has a need for the product, a possible desire to own that product, and the financial capacity to implement that decision. You "spend" time with suspects; you "invest" time with prospects.